This information is preliminary, but it's the latest I can find regarding a recent assault against a member of the Westboro Baptist Church.
Several members of Westboro Baptist Church went to Brandon, Mississippi to protest at a military funeral, but they didn't actually make it to the picket site.
One of the WBC members was accosted and attacked at a gas station, and may have ended up in hospital as a result. There were several “witnesses,” apparently, but they all came down with a mysterious case of temporary blindness and thus couldn't provide a useful description of the assailant to police.
Meanwhile, back at the hotel where church members were staying, several trucks boxed in whatever vehicles they could find with Kansas plates and then the drivers disappeared until after the funeral.
It is my hope the police will eventually find out who assaulted the WBC member, perhaps after one of the witnesses regains his or her wits, so that a dangerous person – a person unstable enough to meet words with fists – can be taken off the streets.
That's the crux of this matter: An “unknown” assailant committed a criminal act against an unpopular man because the latter made a comment that angered the former. That's not amusing. That's not justice. The man who committed the assault is dangerous – a criminal.
Find and arrest him.
UPDATE: Turns out the entire series of incidents may have been cut from whole cloth, thankfully. Too bad the pair of asinine responses I got weren't.
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Dangerous criminal? Who's he dangerous towards? Who, of all the people who witnessed what actually happened, clearly thought for even a second that he was out of line? Have you ever seen anything regarding how the WBC treat actual human beings? Let's see how you act when a congregation of hate mongerers show up to your son or daughter's funeral, calling him or her a faggot that deserves to burn in hell, because of the only crime of supporting their country. No, this isn't a matter of mob justice being dealt out in bloodthirsty anger, this is a community of people who understand what it means to be a part of a better nation. A nation of support and, ironically in this situation, acceptance of all the god given rights any person should have, starting with the basic human right to greive.
@ Anon: I read precisely two lines of your post. The guy beat the crap out of someone because he didn't agree with the politics of his victim. Do I have to draw you a fucking diagram?
Westboro has repeatedly assaulted families who are grieving over the death of loved ones .. guess they won't be going back to Mississippi. LOL!
@ Suzzie: WBC "assaulted" them with words. You remember the old children's rhythm: "Sticks and stones will break my bones, but..."
It's so funny to watch wannabe patriots pile on to defend someone who hates freedom as much as the gas station perpetrator does. You guys are a bunch of hypocrites.
You are a hypocrite. Given your participation on STC you certainly believe "Sticks and stones may break my bone, but..." Apparently people's words matter a great deal to you.
@ Anon (May 9): I post occasionally to a blog you personally don't like and *poof* somehow your demented brain translates that into the idea that "...people's words matter a great deal you."
What about my innocuous comment left you with that impression?
If you're who I believe you to be, then you also posted there. Does that automatically make you an STC fangrrl?
And at any rate, saying words people don't like is not the same as physically assaulting someone. Did you have to dig deep for your bilge or are you just naturally this stupid?
Since they say everything bad that happens is Gods will maybe this is it too...
What about, taking the WBC and move it somewhere else! I would love to suggest a island for themselves where they can preach to crabs and fish
sorry but i would have done the same. sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. if words aint stopping them. people with morals will! :)
"if words aint stopping them. people with morals will!"
It is morally wrong to meet speech you dislike with physical violence.
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